Millennium Pipeline

Dr. Courtney Williams-Cancer Research Scientist and Anti-Fossil Fuel Activist Vice-President, Safe Energy Rights Group (SEnRG) www.senrg.org Co-ordinator for Resist Spectra resist aim.wordpress.com/ Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power: An Introduction to Understanding Their Problems and Challenges Part-1: The Fossil Fuel Side This video is an introduction to the problems/challenges of both fossil fuels and nuclear power. Part 1 has Dr. Courtney Williams speaking on fossil fuels and their growing infrastructure. Part 2 has Dr. Gordon Edwards talking about the nuclear aspects. Both [...]

On July 17, 2012 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in a rare 3-2 vote, approved a project by the Millennium Pipeline Company to construct a gas compressor station in a residential area of Minisink, NY. On May 1, 2014, a group of Minisink Residents was represented at the U.S. Court of Appeals in a effort to overturn that split [...]

Why Is Minisink’s Battle So Important To The State, And To The Nation? Minisink’s case at the U.S. Court of Appeals will set a new legal precedent in terms of communities’ rights vs. the corporate interests of the oil and gas industry. Already, Minisink has broken four legal precedents, and the community is now poised to make history again at the federal judiciary level. It could either go remarkably well, and Minisink could be the first community in the nation to have a compressor station shut down and physically removed, thereby setting an incredible precedent for the [...]

The fertile Black Dirt Region of upstate New York is being put at risk by the gas industry infrastructure in the form of compressor and metering stations which not only release emissions containing carcinogens and neurotoxins, but also compounds that when exposed to sunlight for prolonged periods are converted to ground level ozone–known to inhibit crop productivity by as much as 30%. Come join the farmers and families of Minisink NY as they gather in Union Square, NYC on Saturday, October 26th, 2013. Playwright Eve Ensler will be a guest [...]

Come to a gathering on Saturday, October 26th at noon in Union Square, NYC to support and hear from farmers in the upstate “Black Dirt Region” fighting against the damage being done to the residents, farm animals, crops and environment by the Millennium Pipeline Company’s gas compressor station, located in Minisink, [...]

Minisink Matters: Poisoning for Profit Voices from the community of Minisink, NY, where the Millennium Pipeline Company, with the approval of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), has put a compressor station in the middle of a residential agricultural area. The residents are appealing FERC’s decision to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in an effort to halt the operation of the facility which is now in service and venting harmful vapors into the [...]

Senator Gillibrand Stand With Minisink! The community of Minisink, NY needs your help. Please sign the petition at: http://www.citizenspeak.org/campaign/stopmcs/senator-gillibrand-minisink-matters-please-take-action Also, please call Senator Gillibrand at 212-688-6262 and ask that she: (1) visit Minisink to meet with the impacted families and farmers, (2) shut down the compressor station on the grounds of corporate fraudulence, illegal segmentation, and danger to the impacted communities, and (3) call for Congressional hearings on these clear violations. Tell her: Stand With Minisink! [...]